Family of 16-/32-bit microprocessors
Blackfin| Designer | Analog Devices |
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| Bits | 32-bit |
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| Introduced | 2000; 24 years ago (2000) |
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| Design | RISC |
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| Type | Load–store |
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| Encoding | Variable (16- or 32-bit general purpose, or 64-bit parallel issue of 1 × 32-bit instruction + 2 × 16-bit instructions) |
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| Branching | Condition code |
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| Endianness | Little |
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| General-purpose | 8 × 32-bit data registers (addressable as 16 × 16-bit half-registers), 2 × 40-bit accumulators, 6 × 32-bit address registers, stack pointer, frame pointer |
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Blackfin is a family of 16-/32-bit microprocessors developed, manufactured and marketed by Analog Devices. The processors have built-in, fixed-point digital signal processor (DSP) functionality performed by 16-bit multiply–accumulates (MACs), accompanied on-chip by a microcontroller.[1] It was designed for a unified low-power processor architecture that can run operating systems while simultaneously handling complex numeric tasks such as real-time H.264 video encoding.[2][3]
